subject: Efficient Exabyte Vxa 2 Tape Drive [print this page] It is very much essential that you should have a comprehensive plan for creating backup of your valuable data so that you can enhance your business activities in a cost efficient manner. Backup tape cartridges have proven to be the most reliable and high performance storage technology designed for long-term protection.
Need for higher capacity tape storage technology has rapidly increased over the years. There are many different tape storage technologies available in the market but I am going to introduce you to one of the most efficient and durable tape format called VXA technology. VXA tape format is clearly a winner as the major media storage manufacturing companies like IBM, Apple, Toshiba, Fujitsu, and Logitech support this tape format and more are expected to follow. Recording capacity, media reliability and output frequency of Exabyte VXA-2 tape drive is superior to other backup tape formats. With high capacity VXA 2 tape drive, you can efficiently store 160 GB per cartridge. Exabyte VXA-2 tape drive not only deliver greater capacity but its data recording speed is also much faster than other competing tape technologies.
Exabyte VXA-2 drive delivers excellent performance with the below mentioned VXA 2 backup tapes:
Exabyte VXA backup tape (part number 11100221), IBM VXA X-23 tape (part number 24R2137), Exabyte VXA-2 tape (part number 11100206)., Some other popular VXA tapes are 24R2136 by IBM, VXA-V by Exabyte, VXA-X by Exabyte also. Some important part numbers to keep in mind are 11100206, 11100221, 11100106, 11100103, 11100100,11100200, 24R2134.
I recommend that you should use Exabyte VXA cleaning cartridge to keep the tape drive in prefect condition for longer time span. Part number of this cleaning cartridge is 11100209. This cleaning cartridge is robustly engineered to boost the data throughput of the VXA tape drive.
Exabyte VXA2 drive provides improved performance and greater capacity through low voltage SCSI LVD connection. VXA-2 Exabyte drive also comes with Fire-wire interface. The tape drive requires less power to operate its functions. Therefore this feature of Exabyte VXA-2 drive lowers the operational cost.
Exabyte VXA-2 drive transfers and stores data in the form of packets. The other tape technologies place the data parallel to the tape edge in continuous stream. Recording mechanism in linear technology is similar to the working system of tape cassettes. In helical scan drives, a spinning head writes the media tracks at an angle. These tracks are tightly packed at the tapes edges. Data is placed in a continuous stream in both helical scan and linear tape drives.
VXA tape drive splits the long data strings into smaller chunks called data packets. Your network also splits the data in a similar way as the VXA drive does. The network splits the large data files into packets and then transmits them over the internet. This is also true for the VXA tape drives. The Exabyte VXA2 tape drive verifies each of the packets that it writes in order to assure data integrity. This functionality of high capacity VXA drive elevates accuracy of data recording. Variable speed operation is a unique functionality offered by the fast speed VXA drive. With the help of this functionality the VXA drives adjust their tape speed and match it with transfer speed of the system that is furnishing the data. Therefore variable speed operation capability leads to greater reliability, better performance and reduced media wear & tear.
